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China’s decision not to allow Meta to acquire local AI outfit Manus AI has become reality, with the upstart advising users it will soon “return to operating as an independent company.”

Manus burst onto the AI scene in March 2025 with a “general agent” that allowed users assign tasks to an AI. To illustrate its powers, Manus claimed it could select the best candidate for a job by evaluating job applications stored in a .ZIP file, which it would open and read, then assess against user-defined criteria, before writing a document that ranked the best applications. All that work happened inside a virtual PC that Manus’s agents drove without human help to do the job.

The service quickly gathered many enthusiastic users and claimed to have hit a $100 million run rate. AI companies always need stacks...

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